Global Corporate M&A and Corporate Finance Activities in the Agricultural Machinery Ecosystem(April 2015 – October 2025)

In the past 10+ years, we have picked up over 3,600 Corporate Finance, and 4,100 Corporate M&A related developments across 110+ countries in the Agricultural Machinery related Ecosystem.

This included Corporate Finance related investments (minority shares) into startups, manufacturers, suppliers, intermediaries (importers, distributors, dealers), and other relevant organisations in the value chain.

Corporate M&A related activities (majority shares) reflect the consolidation in the industry, and also affected the entire value chain.

The United States represented most Corporate Finance (18.91%), and M&A activities (15.48%), followed by Germany according to our Ecosystem Intelligence

When it comes to Corporate M&A activities, the main organisations involved (and their respective dealer networks) were, in descending order, John Deere, CNH, AGCO Corporation, CLAAS, Kubota Corporation, and Mahindra Group

When it comes to Corporate Finance activities, the main organisations involved (and their respective dealer networks) were again, in a different descending order, CNH, John Deere, Kubota Corporation, Claas, AGCO Corporation, and again Mahindra Group

Many of these companies initially buy a minority share e.g. in a startup before taking the company over, which is also very evident in John Deere`s, and CNH`s approach.

ACTIVITIES IN THE AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ECOSYSTEM
Last Edited:
15/10/2025
Murat Unal
Murat Unal

Murat Unal’s research interest lies in Ecosystem Intelligence based on network science and latest advances in AI. His team has been providing Ecosystem Intelligence to some of the most well known organizations in the world since 2015 complemented by strategic business advisory services. By equipping corporate decision-makers, policy makers, institutional investors and many other clients with actionable intelligence, Murat and his team at SONEAN enable the early identification of emerging opportunities, and risks, across global markets and provide unique insights into the entire value chain of industries such as agriculture, sustainability (renewable energy and engine forms, Scope 1-3 emissions related strategies), construction machinery, lifting technologies, warehouse automation and intralogistics as well as many other sectors such as beauty/luxury. Taking advantage of this unique information, facilitates the development of robust, technology-enabled, strategic and tactical planning, optimising long-term positioning for future growth. Since 2015 his team's platform AGCUMEN (dedicated to agricultural machinery/technology and related topics), has been monitoring the global agricultural ecosystem daily, across 190+ countries, using network science and AI-technology, that covers a network of over 70,000 core organisations, with over 150 million unique events analysed as part of his knowledge graph approach.

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